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someone asked about this site and the program for playing this game, it is brilliant http://www.chaturanga.com/ oh, and they people who make that cd, believe it is the first chess. if you buy it, ask about getting the option with the pieces all standing upright, if you prefer that look. it contains 'forbes's book', and really, i can't understand how anyone who reads that can think chess did not begin in india, and this 'variant' here, is not the first chess. the idea that this came after 'shatranj' is laughable. he makes murray look like .. well, look bad to say the least. it is obvious when you read it, that murray didn't know too much about this game, did the guy actually play chess? and the last post about chess in mahabharata yes i agree, but even further back in the ramayana it is mentioned, though this book was not written down till after christ, it was considered 'ancient' in mahabharata times, it was orally transmited. even the vedas, when written down, existed long before that. mahabharata was written by vyasa, who wrote the vedas. in mahabharata, vyasa describes clearly this game. how could this game come after shatranj. even the persians say they got it from the indians, but anyway, just my opionion :)